The
Shill Media are offering up the usual pabulum about presidential contenders,
disgorging reportage about the vapid and venal that's more soap opera
than scoop. With mock surprise they speak of the presidential aspirations
of Rudy, Lady Macbeth and Brokeback Obama, as they treat platitudes
and political sloganeering as if they were less empty than the minds
that regurgitate them. But amidst the din of this much-ado-about-nothing
quest for copy, the media have missed - perhaps quite conveniently
- the only truly scintillating story of the 2008 election. Radio talk
show host Michael Savage is mulling a run for the White House.

I'm
sure many would say I was wasting words on wishes, as Savage is the
darkest of horses. But there's a very good reason to welcome his entrance
into the race, and I'll discuss this in a moment. First, though, let's
take a peek into the life of the effervescent commentator.

Although
Michael Savage has achieved fame through his exploits on radio and
his four best-selling political books, this presidential dark horse
is no one-trick pony, as he has lived a storied life and worn many
hats. The son of an immigrant, he was raised in Queens, NY, in a home
of most modest means. Savage attended public school and, applying
himself to academics, vigorously pursued higher education, eventually
earning a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Nutrition Sciences from U.C. Berkeley.

Dr.
Savage went on to become an innovator in the field of nutrition, authoring
seventeen books on the subject, became a director of nutrition for
a major corporation and spent years as a botanical Indiana Jones,
exploring the south pacific in a search for plants with medicinal
qualities.

It
was only later in life that Savage plunged into talk radio, an effort
that gave birth to his show, The Savage Nation, which boasts
more than eight million listeners weekly. And on that show one gets
a glimpse of what Michael Savage would bring to the presidential race.

The
Savage Nation is a land where political correctness finds no safe
harbor. Savage unabashedly waxes patriotic, as he fights the culture
war with a battle cry of "Borders, language and culture." He rightly
sounds the alarm about radical Islam, the invasion by illegal aliens,
the ACLU, feminism and the homosexual mafia, enduring the slings and
arrows of those who would tarnish the tellers of truth. He rails against
the moral decay represented by pop tarts, Howard Stern, gangsta rappers
and the prevalence of pornography.

Yet,
despite Savage's impressive credentials as a traditionalist, he is
no blind flag-waver or party loyalist. An independent thinker, he
casts the discerning eye within as well as without, exposing America's
true characteristic faults, as opposed to the imaginary ones of leftist
conjurers. And his ire is no respecter of party lines, as he has often
roasted George W. Bush on the same spit that has impaled the president's
most ardent foes.

Lastly,
although Savage is certainly versed in the hyperbole and acid-tongued
rhetoric that are staples of talk radio, any honest listener is quickly
struck by how his presentation is more sophistication than savagery.
He not only nimbly segues from the emotional to the dialectical, from
the earthly to the ethereal, and from satire to sober analysis, but
is also equal parts philosopher, preacher and poet. He is unafraid
to invoke biblical passages when providing insight on today's woes
and demonstrates a grasp of history impressive enough to convince
one that he has not forgotten the mistakes of the past. Simply put,
he talks about everything the major presidential contenders should
but never will.

And
this brings me to why I would encourage Savage to don yet one more
hat and then throw it into the ring. All the current high profile
presidential contenders are pretenders, people who, for lack of either
wisdom or will, will never broach the real issues or speak hard truths.
They'll never talk honestly about immigration, Islam, the destruction
of our culture and sovereignty or anything else that really matters,
and, damnably, the Shill Media won't ask them the tough questions.

Michael
Savage would, in the least, stand a chance of taking these soporific
candidates and a slumbering people out of their comfort zone and bringing
real issues and outside-the-box thinking to the forefront. Barring
this, the politicians will just go through the motions and keep people
in the Matrix, a controlled faux reality in which lies can masquerade
as truth and liars can carry the day. The end result would be another
general election with a socialist on the left and a garden-variety
statist on the right, another choice between the lesser of two evils.

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So
it's not really about whether Michael Savage can win but, rather,
the opportunity to force politicking sentient programs in a virus-ridden
system to deal with relevant data. It's a task that may be impossible,
as even Neo might be trumped by the neo-cons. But maybe, just perhaps,
Dr. Savage can help administer that red pill.

Selwyn Duke lives in Westchester County, New
York. He's a tennis professional, internet entrepreneur and writer whose
works have appeared on various sites on the Internet, including Intellectual
Conservative, nenewamerica.us (Alan Keyes) and Mensnet. Selwyn has traveled
extensively in his life, visiting exotic locales such as India, Morocco
and Algeria and quite a number of other countries while playing the international
tennis circuit.